Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2007, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2

Getting Started with the Visual Basic Editor

In this chapter, you’ll start learning how to use the Visual Basic Editor, a powerful tool that Microsoft provides for working with VBA code and user forms. This programming editor is the culmination of over 15 years of modifications and improvements. It is highly effective.

All applications that host VBA use the Visual Basic Editor, so when you’re working with VBA, the environment looks much the same no matter which application you’re using.

This chapter shows you the basics of the Visual Basic Editor: its components, what they do, and how you use them. You’ll learn more advanced maneuvers as you work with VBA later in this book.

This chapter also shows you how to customize the Visual Basic ...